Immersive Analytics and Deep Maps – the Next Big Thing for Cultural Heritage & Archaeology

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Abstract

Archaeologists and cultural heritage experts explore complex multifaceted data that is often highly interconnected. We argue for new ways to interact with this data. Such data analysis provides a ‘grand challenge’ for computer science and heritage researchers, it is big Data, multi-dimensional, multi-typed, contains uncertain information, and the questions posed by researchers are often ill-defined (where it is difficult to guarantee an answer). We present two visions (Immersive Analytics, and Deep Mapping) as solutions to allow both expert users and the general public to interact and explore heritage data. We use pre-historic data as a case study, and discuss key technologies that need to develop further, to help accomplish these two visions.

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J. C. Roberts, J. W. Mearman, P. D. Ritsos, H. C. Miles, A. T. Wilson, D. Perkins, J. R. Jackson, B. Tiddeman, F. Labrosse, B. Edwards, and R. Karl, “Immersive Analytics and Deep Maps – the Next Big Thing for Cultural Heritage & Archaeology,” in Visualization for Digital Humanities Workshop, IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2016.

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@inproceedings{Roberts-et-al-Viz4DH-VIS2016,
  author = {Roberts, Jonathan C. and Mearman, Joseph W. and Ritsos, Panagiotis D. and Miles, Helen C. and Wilson, Andrew T. and Perkins, David and Jackson, James R. and Tiddeman, Bernard and Labrosse, Frederic and Edwards, Ben and Karl, Raimund},
  title = {{Immersive Analytics and Deep Maps – the Next Big Thing for Cultural Heritage & Archaeology}},
  editor = {Collins, Christopher and El-Assady, Mennatallah and J\"{a}nicke, Stefan and Keim, Daniel},
  booktitle = {Visualization for Digital Humanities Workshop, IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS), Baltimore, MD, USA},
  year = {2016},
  month = oct
}